READ-ME
AUTHOR: Mahesh Karra
DATE: May 10, 2025

INTRODUCTION
This replication package reproduces the results for the paper entitled "Unwanted Family Planning including Unwanted Sterilization: Prevalence Estimates for India," which is published in Studies in Family Planning (SFP) at https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12274.

This package contains one Stata Do-File (.do) that replicates the tables and figures in the main paper.

The dataset that is used for this analysis are from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey (NFHS). Permission to access the NFHS can be obtained from the DHS Program website at dhsprogram.com. 

The dataset for this analysis can be created by:
1. Downloading the Stata versions (.dta) of the Individual Recode (IR) files for the 2005-06, 2015-16, and 2019-21 NFHS surveys.
2. Creating a pooled dataset that contains all three waves of the IR data. The pooled dataset can be created with the "append" command in Stata.

FILE AND FOLDER SET-UP:
1. Save all files (the pooled NFHS IR dataset, do file) in the same folder named DATA.
2. Create a subfolder named RESULTS in the folder where these files are saved.

To run the do-file, open the .do file in Stata, change the filepath for maindir1 to the directory where the pooled data file is saved (line 11 in the do-file) and the filepath for maindir2 to the directory where the results will be saved (line 12 in the do-file). Execute the do-file in Stata by clicking on Run. The outputs of each file will be stored in the "RESULTS" folder.

DO-FILES
	1. Replication_Do_File_5-10-25:
		This .do file replicates all tables and figures in the paper. There are 6 sets of outputs from this do-file:
		a. IA_TABLE_2.rtf produces an RTF Word document with the results for Table 2 and Appendix Table 2.
		b. IA_TABLE_3A.rtf and IA_TABLE_3B.rtf produce two RTF Word documents with the results for Table 3 and Appendix Table 3.
		c. IA_TABLE_4_2021.rtf produces an RTF Word document with the results for Table 4. IA_TABLE_4_2016.rtf and IA_TABLE_4_2006.rtf produces two RTF Word documents with the 		results for Appendix Table 4.
		d. IA_TABLE_5A.rtf, IA_TABLE_5B.rtf, and IA_TABLE_5C.rtf produce three RTF Word documents with the results for Table 5 and Appendix Table 5.
		e. The code from lines 305-319 produce a Stata dataset of the proportions of unwanted family planning and sterilization-adjusted unwanted family planning by state.

		Expected run time: 45 seconds

QUESTIONS?
Please direct any questions regarding this replication package to the corresponding author. 

Correspoding Author:
Mahesh Karra
Pardee School of Global Studies
Boston University
mvkarra@bu.edu